25 June 2018 - Einstein’s genius

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What was Einstein’s genius? The ability to draw unfamiliar conclusions. Any technical person can work out logical consequences; Einstein was able to believe them when others thought “but that must be wrong.” The difference from crackpots is that a crackpot is not able to correctly work out logical consequences.

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